TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.0 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
How 12,750 OSHA-reporting employers across Indiana compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 11,348 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.0 avg TCR
Indiana vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
12,750 13th of 54 higher than 41 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Indiana's 11,348 rated reporting employers average 5.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.9 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 12,750 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
21% of Indiana's reporting establishments earn an F and 17% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Indiana's average TCR of 5.0 is lower than 66% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Indiana is #19 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 11,348-employer subset), it's #42 of 54, a 23-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
Indiana hosts 12,750 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Indiana cohort, workers have logged 260,376 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 11,348 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 206 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Indiana, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette Plant | Lafayette | Axle bearings, automotive, t | A | 2.1 |
| 4582 Plymouth Food Service Packaging | Plymouth | Corrugated and Solid Fiber B | B | 2.1 |
| JX Truck Center Fort Wayne | New Haven | Trucks, road, merchant whole | C | 2.1 |
| Meijer Store 131 | Indianapolis | Food (i.e., groceries) store | B | 2.1 |
| Atlas Excavating, Inc. | West Lafayette | Sanitary sewer construction | B | 2.1 |
| Indiana University Health Healthcare Associates | Indianapolis | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | B | 2.1 |
| Twin City Electric Co., Inc. | Lafayette | Electrical contractors | B | 2.1 |
| Fs-St. Vincent Hosp | Kokomo | - | B | 2.1 |
| Koetter Construction | Floyds Knobs | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.1 |
| AeroSafe Global - Indy | Indianapolis | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 2.1 |
| Executive Managment Services - Gooding | Greenfield | Custodial services | A | 2.1 |
| HES H Ed at University of Evansville | Evansville | - | A | 2.1 |
| Ki - Clarksville | Clarksville | Other Building Material Deal | B | 2.1 |
| Ziolkowski Construction, Inc. | South Bend | Commercial Construction | B | 2.1 |
| ECKART America - Schererville | Schererville | Commercial gravure printing | B | 2.1 |
| Kaiser Aluminum - Warrick | Newburgh | Aluminum sheet made by flat | B | 2.1 |
| 8747 Hobart Ridge SVT | Hobart | Grocery stores | B | 2.1 |
| School Corporation | Garrett | Elementary and secondary sch | D | 2.1 |
| Dexter Axle Company - Plant 12 | Fremont | All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), | B | 2.1 |
| Evansville Surgery Center Associate, LLC. Main | Evansville | General medical and surgical | A | 2.1 |
| Marten House Hotel | Indianapolis | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.1 |
| Maley & Wertz, Inc. | Evansville | Lumber, kiln drying | B | 2.1 |
| MacAllister Machinery Washington | Washington | Agricultural machinery and e | C | 2.1 |
| Riegsecker Inc. | Shipshewana | Catalog showrooms, general m | B | 2.1 |
| Vernet US Corporation | Columbus | Angle valves, industrial-typ | B | 2.1 |
| Zipp | Indianapolis | Bicycles and parts manufactu | B | 2.1 |
| Supply Chain : Lafayette Engine Facility | Lafayette | - | B | 2.1 |
| Carroll White REMC - Monticello | Monticello | Distribution of electric pow | D | 2.1 |
| Tenneco | Jeffersonville | Exhaust and tail pipes, auto | A | 2.1 |
| Lci -085 | Goshen | Metal Fabrication and Anodiz | B | 2.1 |
| KOCH Mechanical Inc. | North Vernon | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | B | 2.1 |
| Ursa Logistics - Indianapolis | Indianapolis | Truck repair shops, general | C | 2.1 |
| O'Neal Steel Incorporated_Evansville | Evansville | Metals Service Centers | C | 2.1 |
| Portage - Duneland Production Facility | Portage | Plastics film and unlaminate | B | 2.1 |
| Hydro-Gear, Indianapolis | Indianapolis | Hydrostatic drives manufactu | B | 2.1 |
| B&J Specialty, INC | Wawaka | Machine shops | B | 2.1 |
| Ameristar East Chicago Casino and Hotel | East Chicago | Casinos (except casino hotel | B | 2.1 |
| Bhi-Hoosier Village | Indianapolis | - | B | 2.1 |
| Decker IN | Vincennes | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | C | 2.1 |
| Kem Krest - Bristol | Bristol | Kit assembling and packaging | B | 2.1 |
| 362 | Mishawaka | snack and nonalcoholic bever | B | 2.1 |
| Banjo Corporation | Crawfordsville | Fittings and unions, rigid p | B | 2.1 |
| M2 Evansville Tenant LLC | Evansville | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.1 |
| Gdc 4 | Goshen | Motor vehicle moldings and e | B | 2.1 |
| Berry Plastics Bloomington | Bloomington | Bags, plastics film, single | B | 2.1 |
| Decatur Plastic Products Inc - Alabama Flocking Division | North Vernon | Motor vehicle moldings and e | B | 2.1 |
| Castle South Middle School | Newburgh | Elementary and secondary sch | D | 2.1 |
| Milestone Contractors, LP | Indianapolis | Cabin construction general c | B | 2.1 |
| Berrygos | Goshen | Bags, plastics film, single | B | 2.1 |
| Ingram Micro Mobility Plainfield Return Center | Plainfield | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.1 |
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Indiana: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.0 here).
Nearest states by reporting employer count (12,750 here).
Look up a Indiana employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.